From the Archives: Susan Lucci
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
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4.3 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
TV Guide called her “the most famous soap opera character in the history of daytime TV.” Actor Susan Lucci inhabited the role of bad girl Erica Kane on ABC’s “All My Children” for four decades, from the show’s inception in 1970 until 2011. She earned the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for the role in 1999 after nineteen nominations – and in December 2023, received the Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award. Lucci’s body of work also includes numerous television series, films and the Broadway stage. She is the author of All my Life: A Memoir and is a National Spokesperson for the American Heart Association. Susan Lucci talks with host Alec Baldwin about how she played a role that evolved over decades, how she realized a lifelong dream of performing on Broadway, and her thoughts on the rumors of a potential reboot of the beloved soap.
Originally aired January 23rd, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | This is Alec Baldwin, |
| 0:08.0 | and you're listening to Here's the Thing from IHeart Radio. |
| 0:12.8 | So many actors who went on to have amazing careers |
| 0:16.0 | in primetime television and film started in soap operas. |
| 0:21.6 | Meg Ryan, Tom Selleck, Julianne Moore, to name just a few, |
| 0:26.2 | and then there are those who stayed in daytime television |
| 0:29.7 | to become huge stars in that genre. |
| 0:33.2 | My guest today is, without a doubt, |
| 0:36.0 | the biggest star in the history of daytime TV. |
| 0:40.0 | Susan Lucci. |
| 0:41.3 | The actress played the iconic villain Erica Kane on ABC's All My Children for four decades |
| 0:48.6 | from the show's inception in 1970 until it wrapped in 2011. |
| 0:58.7 | Following 19 nominations, she finally took home the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1999 and received the Emmy's Lifetime |
| 1:06.1 | Achievement Award this past December. But lovable bad girl is not the only role in Lucie's wheelhouse. |
| 1:13.8 | She has acted in numerous roles in film and TV, from Devious Maids to Hot in Cleveland, |
| 1:21.0 | and starred on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun. |
| 1:24.9 | Susan Lucie has yet another achievement to boast of, a long and healthy |
| 1:29.9 | partnership with husband Helmut Huber. Huber passed away in 22, after 52 years of marriage. |
| 1:38.8 | I wanted to know what was the secret of their successful union. |
| 1:43.6 | Incredibly good luck on my part to meet him because I was young and I didn't. |
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